Love And Friendship and Other Early Works
By Jane Austen
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Austen experts feel that this story was written, like many others, only for the pleasure of her family and friends. It is scribbled across three notebooks, in childish handwriting, and the complete work is thought to have been written over a period of six or seven years. It is dedicated to one of her cousins, whom she was very close to, Eliza de
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775–1817) was an English novelist whose work centred on social commentary and realism. Her works of romantic fiction are set among the landed gentry, and she is one of the most widely read writers in English literature.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is some early writing from Jane Austen that, nonetheless, still shows how she was developing her skills and becoming a better storyteller in her own right. The main novel is a series of letters from two women to one another that deal with the themes of marriage, families, and unhappiness. The other pieces are more whimsical and there is even a small piece on the history of England. Overall, it is a surprisingly readable and interesting collection that should be read for those interested in Austen or classical literature.3 stars.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Hilariously terrible, and really rather charming. So dramatic and overwrought, and oh my goodness the spelling! Only of interest to Austen completists, but hey, it made me laugh out loud on public transport, so I can't hate it...
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Love And Friendship and Other Early Works - Jane Austen
Love And Friendship And Other Early Works
Love And Friendship And Other Early Works
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Chapter 1
LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP
TO MADAME LA COMTESSE DE FEUILLIDE THIS NOVE IS INSCRIBED BY HER OBLIGED HUMBLE SERVANT THE AUTHOR.
Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.
LETTER the FIRST From ISABEL to LAURA
How often, in answer to my repeated in treaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said No, my friend never will I comply with your request till I may be no longer in Danger of again experiencing such dreadful ones.
Surely that time is now at hand. You are this day 55. If a woman may ever be said to be in safety from the determined Perseverance of disagreeable Lovers and the cruel Persecutions of obstinate Fathers, surely it must be at such a time of Life. Isabel
LETTER 2nd LAURA to ISABEL
Altho’ I cannot agree with you in supposing that I shall never again be exposed to Misfortunes as unmerited as those I have already experienced, yet to avoid the imputation of Obstinacy or ill-nature, I will gratify the curiosity of your daughter; and may the fortitude with which I have suffered the many afflictions of my past Life, prove to her a useful lesson for the support of those which may befall her in her own. Laura
LETTER 3rd LAURA to MARIANNE
As the Daughter of my most intimate Friend I think you entitled to that knowledge of my unhappy story, which your Mother has so often solicited
me to give you.
My Father was a native of Ireland and an inhabitant of Wales; my Mother was the natural Daughter of a Scotch Peer by an italian Opera-girl—I was born in Spain and received my Education at a Convent in France.
When I had reached my eighteenth Year I was recalled by my Parents to my paternal roof in Wales. Our mansion was situated in one of the most romantic parts of the Vale of Uske. Tho’ my Charms are now considerably softened and somewhat impaired by the Misfortunes I have undergone, I was once beautiful. But lovely as I was the Graces of my Person were the least of my Perfections. Of every accomplishment accustomary to my sex, I was Mistress. When in the Convent, my progress had always exceeded my instructions, my Acquirements had been wonderfull for my age, and I had shortly surpassed my Masters.
In my Mind, every Virtue that could adorn it was centered; it was the Rendez-vous of every good Quality and of every noble sentiment.
A sensibility too tremblingly alive to every affliction of my Friends, my Acquaintance and particularly to every affliction of my own, was my only fault, if a fault it could be called. Alas! how altered now! Tho’ indeed my own Misfortunes do not make less impression on me than they ever did, yet now I never feel for those of an other. My accomplishments too, begin to fade--I can neither sing so well nor Dance so gracefully as I once did--and I have entirely forgot the MINUET DELA COUR. Adeiu. Laura.
LETTER 4th Laura to MARIANNE
Our neighbourhood was small, for it consisted only of your Mother. She may probably have already told you that being left by her Parents in indigent Circumstances she had retired into Wales on eoconomical motives. There it was our Friendship first commenced. Isobel was then one and twenty. Tho’ pleasing both in her Person and Manners (between ourselves) she never possessed the hundredth part of my Beauty or Accomplishments. Isabel had seen the World. She had passed 2 Years at one of the first Boarding-schools in London; had spent a fortnight in Bath and had supped one night in Southampton.
Beware my Laura (she would often say) Beware of the insipid Vanities and idle Dissipations of the Metropolis of England; Beware of the unmeaning Luxuries of Bath and of the stinking fish of Southampton.
Alas! (exclaimed I) how am I to avoid those evils I shall never be exposed to? What probability is there of my ever tasting the Dissipations of London, the Luxuries of Bath, or the stinking Fish of Southampton? I who am doomed to waste my Days of Youth and Beauty in an humble Cottage in the Vale of Uske.
Ah! little did I then think I was ordained so soon to quit that humble Cottage for the Deceitfull Pleasures of the World. Adeiu Laura.
LETTER 5th LAURA to MARIANNE
One Evening in December as my Father, my Mother and myself, were arranged in social converse round our Fireside, we were on a sudden greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward door of our rustic Cot.
My Father started--What noise is that,
(said he.) It sounds like a loud rapping at the door
--(replied my Mother.) it does indeed.
(cried I.) I am of your opinion; (said my Father) it certainly does appear to proceed from some uncommon violence exerted against our unoffending door.
Yes (exclaimed I) I cannot help thinking it must be somebody who knocks for admittance.
That is another point (replied he;) We must not pretend to determine on what motive the person may knock--tho’ that someone DOES rap at the door, I am partly convinced.
Here, a 2d tremendous rap interrupted my Father in his speech, and somewhat alarmed my Mother and me.
Had we better not go and see who it is? (said she) the servants are out.
I think we had.
(replied I.) Certainly, (added my Father) by all means.
Shall we go now?
(said my Mother,) The sooner the better.
(answered he.) Oh! let no time be lost
(cried I.)
A third more violent Rap than ever again assaulted our ears. I am certain there is somebody knocking at the Door.
(said my Mother.) I think there must,
(replied my Father) I fancy the servants are returned; (said I) I think I hear Mary going to the Door.
I’m glad of it (cried my Father) for I long to know who it is.
I was right in my conjecture; for Mary instantly entering the Room, informed us that a young Gentleman and his Servant were at the door, who
had lossed their way, were very cold and begged leave to warm themselves by our fire.
Won’t you admit them?
(said I.) You have no objection, my Dear?
(said my Father.) None in the World.
(replied my Mother.)
Mary, without waiting for any further commands immediately left the room and quickly returned introducing the most beauteous and amiable Youth, I had ever beheld. The servant she kept to herself.
My natural sensibility had already been greatly affected by the sufferings of the unfortunate stranger and no sooner did I first behold him, than I felt that on him the happiness or Misery of my future Life must depend. Adeiu Laura.
LETTER 6th LAURA to MARIANNE
The noble Youth informed us that his name was Lindsay--for particular reasons however I shall conceal it under that of Talbot. He told us that he was the son of an English Baronet, that his Mother had been for many years no more and that he had a Sister of the middle size. My Father (he continued) is a mean and mercenary wretch--it is only to such particular Friends as this Dear Party that I would thus betray his failings. Your Virtues my amiable Polydore (addressing himself to my father) yours Dear Claudia and yours my Charming Laura call on me to repose in you, my confidence.
We bowed. My Father seduced by the false glare of Fortune and the Deluding Pomp of Title, insisted on my giving my hand to Lady Dorothea. No never exclaimed I. Lady Dorothea is lovely and Engaging; I prefer no woman to her; but know Sir, that I scorn to marry her in compliance with your Wishes. No! Never shall it be said that I obliged my Father.
We all admired the noble Manliness of his reply. He continued.
Sir Edward was surprised; he had perhaps little expected to meet with so spirited an opposition to his will.
Where, Edward in the name of wonder (said he) did you pick up this unmeaning gibberish? You have been studying Novels I suspect." I scorned to answer: it would have
been beneath my dignity. I mounted my Horse and followed by my faithful William set forth for my Aunts."
My Father’s house is situated in Bedfordshire, my Aunt’s in Middlesex, and tho’ I flatter myself with being a tolerable proficient in Geography, I know not how it happened, but I found myself entering this beautifull Vale which I find is in South Wales, when I had expected to have reached my Aunts.
"After having wandered some time on the Banks of the Uske without knowing which way to go, I began to lament my cruel Destiny in the bitterest and most pathetic Manner. It was now perfectly dark, not a single star was there to direct my steps, and I know not what might have befallen me had I not at length discerned thro’ the solemn Gloom that surrounded me a distant light, which as I approached it, I discovered to be the chearfull Blaze of your fire. Impelled by the combination of Misfortunes under which I laboured, namely Fear, Cold and Hunger